A former Gowling WLG solicitor has written about how she dreamed of getting hit by a car so she wouldn't have to work at the firm any longer.
"It wasn't that I wanted the car to knock me out", wrote Katy Drohan in a local Birmingham e-magazine. "Just give me a shunt. A broken wrist maybe. Something that would get me out of my meeting that day, off the project, and away from the office for a good month without admitting I didn’t want this life".
After eight years at the firm, Drohan left Gowling WLG last March to join Bell & Smokey, a digital magazine for the "style-smart women of the West Midlands". In this week's mailshot she published an account of her former life, where, she said, "the more contracts I amended and legal updates I reviewed, the less and less creative I became. I could feel the zeal being chiselled from me. I was hoping a car would hit me".
Rather than leap into traffic, she attempted to resign. But the firm was "incredibly supportive" and persuaded her to take a comms position instead, so she could focus on writing. Now she's out, "I smile a lot", she told her readers. Although, "I don’t have medical insurance or life insurance, and I probably earn half of what I would be earning if I’d stayed in the law". Plus, "I haven’t told my mortgage adviser".
A spokeswoman for Gowling WLG said nothing.
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"It wasn't that I wanted the car to knock me out", wrote Katy Drohan in a local Birmingham e-magazine. "Just give me a shunt. A broken wrist maybe. Something that would get me out of my meeting that day, off the project, and away from the office for a good month without admitting I didn’t want this life".
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After eight years at the firm, Drohan left Gowling WLG last March to join Bell & Smokey, a digital magazine for the "style-smart women of the West Midlands". In this week's mailshot she published an account of her former life, where, she said, "the more contracts I amended and legal updates I reviewed, the less and less creative I became. I could feel the zeal being chiselled from me. I was hoping a car would hit me".
Rather than leap into traffic, she attempted to resign. But the firm was "incredibly supportive" and persuaded her to take a comms position instead, so she could focus on writing. Now she's out, "I smile a lot", she told her readers. Although, "I don’t have medical insurance or life insurance, and I probably earn half of what I would be earning if I’d stayed in the law". Plus, "I haven’t told my mortgage adviser".
A spokeswoman for Gowling WLG said nothing.
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Having spend three years working at a firm where I would sit in my car each morning and weep before going in, I can relate.
I got out too (of the firm, not the car. Though I did get out of the car too, reluctantly), much to the relief of my family.
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